I'll have to admit that I've been a little off track with this blog. I started it as a way to reflect on my yoga studies and practice. Then I started writing about photography, food, and psychology. I realized, I'll get nowhere if I'm all over the place; I need to stay focused. Besides, yoga is a fascinating subject! Currently, I enrolled in an Advanced Yoga Studies Program at the Bhavana Institute founded by my first Iyengar Yoga teacher, Kathleen Wright. I've been studying for almost 10 years and have been interested in deepening my study, but never followed through. Especially, after I was laid off of work and told by my previous teacher that she would assist me in the Iyengar Yoga certification process. This is very rigorous, lengthy, and not for me. At least not for now. I felt terrible for not going through with it, but one year later managed to find out that Kathleen opened her own school. The only problem is that certification doesn't start until next year, which is the price I have to pay for having such lovely teachers and curriculum. I love that the teachers learned in the tradition of Parampara, which is studying under the direct guidance of a teacher who has a teacher. India (yoga) were an oral tradition: “The guru was the text.”
During this program, I would like to write about what has been taught so that I can retain all the knowledge, which is plenty! We learn asanas, pranayama, philosophy, history, psychology, and anatomy. There’s an overabundance of information and history and references, but I will try my best to summarize the lessons.
In class, we learned that the learning process has four components:
1/4 Teacher
1/4 Your intelligence
1/4 Classmates
1/4 Time
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